A Plea for Understanding

January 15, 2024
by Pastor Chuck Swindoll
Scriptures: Job 2:1-9
“All right, do with him as you please,” the LORD said to Satan. “But spare his life.” So Satan left the LORD’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.

Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.” (Job 2:6–9)
I want to confess that for too long in my ministry I took unfair advantage of Job's wife, especially since she was not present to defend herself. I think it was probably due to immaturity on my part. Furthermore, I hadn't been married long enough to know better than to say those things. I cannot leave this one snapshot of Mrs. Job in the story without clarifying the record in her defense.

Now that you've seen the incredible disaster they shared, isn't it a little easier to understand how she could suggest, "Job, darling, let's just pull the plug. Don't go on. You can't keep living like this, I can't stand it. Curse God, and let Him take you home to be with Him." I think so. She's reached her limit and is willing to let him go. I'm not justifying the woman's reasoning as much as trying to understand it.

Always guard your words when your husband is going through terribly hard times. I want to confess something about us men. Mainly, I want you to remember: going through sustained hard times weakens most men. For some reason, hardship seems to strengthen women; we admire you for that. But we men are weakened when times of affliction hit and stay. In our weakened condition we lose our objectivity, sometimes our stability. Our discernment is also skewed. Our determination lags. We become vulnerable, and most men don't know how to handle themselves in a vulnerable state of mind. So in light of all of this—hear me—we need your clear perspective, wisdom, and spiritual strength. Most of all, we need you to pray for us as you've never prayed. We need not only your prayers, we need your emotional support. We need you to take the initiative and step up.

We need your words of confidence and encouragement. We even find it hard to say, "I need you right now." My wife could tell you that she lived with me for our first ten years of marriage before she ever thought I needed her. I finally admitted it and learned how to say it. In the lonely hours of a man's great trial, nobody's words mean more to him than his wife's words. That is one of the God-given reasons you and your partner were called to be together. When we husbands lose our way, you wives help us find our way back.

December 27

God’s Wisdom Saves Lives
Bible in a Year :
Zechariah 1–4
Revelation 18
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives.

Today's Scripture & Insight :

Proverbs 11:24–31
A mail carrier became concerned after seeing one of her customers’ mail pile up. The postal worker knew the elderly woman lived alone and usually picked up her mail every day. Making a wise choice, the worker mentioned her concern to one of the woman’s neighbors. This neighbor alerted yet another neighbor, who had a spare key to the woman’s home. Together they entered their friend’s home and found her lying on the floor. She had fallen four days earlier and couldn’t get up or call for help. The postal worker’s wisdom, concern, and decision to act likely saved her life.

Proverbs says, “the one who is wise saves lives” (11:30). The discernment that comes from doing right and living according to God’s wisdom can bless not only ourselves but those we encounter too. The fruit of living out what honors Him and His ways can produce a good and refreshing life. And our fruit also prompts us to care about others and to look out for their well-being.

As the writer of Proverbs asserts throughout the book, wisdom is found in reliance on God. Wisdom is considered “more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her” (8:11). The wisdom God provides is there to guide us throughout our lives. It just might save a life for eternity.

By: Katara Patton

Reflect & Pray
How can you use wisdom to help someone today? How much do you value wisdom?

Heavenly Father, please give me wisdom to follow Your path and directions. Help me to look out for others as You guide me. Amen.

How important is it to use the eyes of my heart? Journaling by Cathy Kawar

Dear Lord, how important is it to use the eyes of my heart? How have I been using them? How would You have me use them?
I’m a little girl and Jesus and I are in a place where there is a waterfall pouring out… and I’m holding Jesus' hands and twirling around…

Me: Lord, how important is it to use the eyes of my heart?
Jesus: Cathy, it’s very important to use the eyes of your heart because with it you can see visions and receive the discernment that I want to give to you in that moment…

See how in the scene you saw a black hooded figure sneaking behind the bushes and it’s as if he has a camera? When you are connected to Me, you will be able to see what is going on in the spiritual realm and to see and discern that which is demonic too… the enemy thinks he can sneak up and catch you off guard... but when you are with Me and use the eyes of your heart, you will be able to discern the deception and traps and schemes of the enemy.
I have called you to a spiritual battle… all my children need to rise up and put on the full armor of God and be aware that satan is like a lion prowling around… it is time to throw off what weighs down and to run towards the race… some of my children have become asleep… they are not picking up the sword to fight… how will they discern both good and evil?

I need you to pick up your sword… I know you have been knocked down but I am going to help you rise up in strength and power - My power through you… because truly where there is weakness, I am the strength.

Me: Lord, I want to rise up and be aware of what is happening spiritually around me… I don’t want to be “asleep” in any area of my life… help me to pick up my sword and to be confident that I am not alone.

Jesus: Indeed child, you are not alone. I will uphold you and strengthen you and be with you. You need not to fear. Just press into Me, press into My love - My love surrounds you and quiets you. I want to reveal things to you… I want to use you in prophetic ministry where you hear My voice and see and help those in need… help those in bondage and fear…

I have called you and anointed you… and to everything there is a time… now is the time where I am equipping you... where I am training you… you feel overlooked, but I have hidden you for the right time… the time in which I will release My strength, glory, and power upon your life. I am not finished with you yet. I have so much in store for you.

Receive one day at a time what I want to do in your life.

Me: Lord, I receive and I trust You and I believe in You and in Your Word.

Jesus: You have been using the eyes of your heart, you have been praying and looking and asking to see visions when you are in your quiet time or whether in church meetings… and there are moments where you see things… but there are moments where you are distracted and are not fully surrendering yourself to Me. I want you to feel free in My presence and forget about those around you. Forget about protocols and the meetings and the people and just be present in that moment. Believe that I want to show you and speak to you. I want you to tune to flow, to Me. I know that can be hard for you at times when you are not doing it alone… but believe that I too can speak to you the way I do now, in the Church. Believe that when you have the opportunity to pray with someone, I will speak through you… just keep the eyes of your heart and your ears open to Me… keep the channel open and see what I will do. For I will receive My glory through you, my child. Take heart, don’t doubt, and trust and receive.

Me: Amen my Lord, I open up and receive. I will focus on living in childlike faith and not allowing doubts or distractions around me to get in between the channel that is open between You and me. I want to be filled with more of You in each day and moment.
Thank you because you have spoken to me and have encouraged me. I praise Your holy name!

International Public Notice of Lawfare
By Anna Von Reitz


In Scotland to this day apprentice Barristers are called “devils” for a reason. It’s because they are being taught the Law of the Sea, and the Sea is acknowledged to be Satan’s realm and home where he was “cast down from Heaven”.

So the Law of the Sea is Satan’s “law” and the practitioners of it are rightly called “Devils” and “Masters of Deceit”.

It should come as no surprise then that the man most singularly responsible for destroying and polluting ten millennia of English Common Law was a Scottish Admiralty Attorney, William Murray, otherwise known as Lord Mansfield.

He is credited in today's white-washed version with "reforming" English Law, but to many observers, it is apparent that he destroyed it, instead.

The essence of Murray's reform was to bring Admiralty Law ashore and intermingle it with English Common Law, a forced and unholy marriage that resulted in what is today called "Equity Law".

The only "equity" in Equity Law is the King's, which is precisely what its proponents like about it.

The new law set up by Murray established a system on the land by which the King's cronies could dispose of private property (and persons) however they liked, so long as it was in the King's arguable best interests----and get a share of the spoils themselves.

This neatly divested the King from any direct responsibility for the courts, and created a self-perpetuating system of greed-fulfillment that runs without undue oversight. As long as the accounting mechanisms are kept in trim, the fleecing can go on day and night for years on end with barely a ripple breaking the surface of this parody of justice.

This criminal equity system derives from a long history of "prize money" under British Admiralty Law, by which a captured ship could be "salvaged" and towed ashore, sold, and the receipts shared out with so much going to the King, so much to the Captain who captured the ship, and so much split up to the members of the crew.

This is what happens in Equity Courts to this day, wherein the Government gets its' share, the Judge receives his bit, and the rest goes to the Attorneys.

The prisoner or defendant in the "dock" --- naval term ---is misaddressed on a "docket" -- another naval term, and is mischaracterized as a captured ship being salvaged. The victim's soul is considered his "cargo" and the "salvage" operation is considered to be his "salvation". The payment of fines and dock fees is his "redemption".

It's a peculiar combination of sanctimonious Calvinist doctrine gone askew, abject toady-ism to the King or other Government, and theft, washed down with a straight face and whiskey flasks in the Judge's chambers.

Equity Law leads directly to capricious justice wherein no two punishments for the same crime are similar, as each judge is free to interpret and excuse things according to their own "discernment".

Usually, if the victim is ignorant and poor and not likely to effectively protest, he is dealt with most severely; if the Defendant is socially and economically well-placed, possibly with avenues to the King's ear, he gets off with a slap on the wrist. So much for discernment.

The salvation of the latter's soul becomes less of a public concern and more in the nature of a private one, as a rich man is automatically assumed to be on good terms with Satan, who sits as the Great Judge over this entire system of law.

The thing that Equity Law (created in the 1750's) promises in dry dock is also accomplished on the land by Public Trust Administration (created in 1666 by the Cestui Que Vie Act) --- and both get away with their abuses by assuming a "public interest" in private property.

The "public interest" is an ownership interest, which allows the King to take out insurance policies on his Subjects. It is not possible to insure something if you don't have an ownership interest in it and this is no exception.

Via the imposition of Equity Law or via the presumptions provided by the Cestui Que Vie Act, the British King happily presumes an ownership interest in living people who have no relationship to him at all. He simply theorizes the existence of a British Person, a Subject that exists in his care as their Trustee while on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways, or presumes the existence of an "abandoned" orphan using the same name as the Victim, and insures that Person as his own Possession---his slave or indentured servant.

Then, no matter what happens to that Person, up to and including death, the King makes a tidy profit from him or her. Such Persons are handily subject to Equity Law and Administrative Law, both. And unknown to the Brits, Americans, Canadians, and others who have been victimized by this purposeful fraud scheme, these are the imaginary foreign "Persons" being addressed under the foreign law of the equally foreign Equity Courts and (corporate tribunal) Administrative courts sitting on our shores.

These courts can never address the actual living people at all. If they did, they'd be committing crimes.

Instead, they have to successfully misaddress and mischaracterize their victims as one of their own foreign Subjects, in order to establish jurisdiction.

People fall into their trap by replying to a misaddressed Summons or by appearing as a character, a Defendant, in one of their court dramas. They can also do this by successfully misaddressing you as "Mister" or "Miss" or attaching some other Title to you.

Mister is the proper form of address for a British Midshipman. If you answer to someone calling you, "Mister Brown" you have taken the bait.
A "Taxpayer" is a Warrant Officer in the British Merchant Marine Service.
This pattern of purposefully mischaracterizing and impersonating people so as to invoke sea-going jurisdictions is endemic.

Having once successfully misaddressed the target, they can proceed with the rest of their agenda, which is simply to fleece the victim and coerce them on behalf of their King.

This is bad enough in times of peace, but during times of war, it devolves into "lawfare" wherein even the rules of Equity Law are bent beyond recognition and the judges operate more or less openly as petty tyrants, handing out arbitrary sentences, lying, practicing law from the bench, tampering with evidence, and generally making a mockery of justice, victimizing anyone they can misidentify as an "Enemy Combatant".

In this country, they have used The American Civil War, an illegal Mercenary Conflict that actually ended over 150 years ago, as their excuse to presume enemies behind every bush and invoke Admiralty Law on dry land. This allows them to presume virtually unlimited powers over life and death, property and its disposal, prison terms, etc.

To weaponize their other venue, the Administrative Courts, they have their Captains declare various other kinds of "war" -- wars on poverty, drugs, and terrorism, for example.

All this, where there is in fact no war and no Subjects to prosecute.

There's a whole lot of "legal presumption" going on where it is not merited.

We have trustingly, stupidly, endured this situation for over 150 years.

These foreign courts have misapplied their foreign and self-serving "law" to generations of innocent Americans, robbing, defrauding, mischaracterizing and coercing us in the process.

The creation of Equity Law and its true nature as institutionalized crime did not escape the notice of our ancestors, who vehemently denied it access to our shores. It only crawled out of the slime in the wake of the Civil War, when, in May of 1865, the Territorial Rump Congress provided for the creation of Military Districts in the eleven Southern States and the so-called District Courts were born.

These Carpetbagger Courts became infamous for their injustice and raw avarice.

And they are still in operation.

We call for the removal of all maritime and admiralty courts from our shores and their permanent relocation to the District of Columbia, or other foreign locations.

We can administer our own Public Law and Law of the Land with no trouble, all by ourselves.

We also call for investigation by the Inspector General, Postmaster General, and the Post Master of The United States concerning the use of Dog Latin, also mischaracterized as "American Sign Language '', to misaddress mail delivered within the borders of our States of the Union.

Finally, we call for the lawful conversion of all private corporation assets presently occupying what appear to be public offices, departments, courts, and similar public service positions and their return to duty under the auspices of our lawful civilian government.

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

26th November 2023

It's important to run TOWARD something (even if it's your own emotional autonomy) than AWAY from something (even if it's a toxic or under-satisfying relationship.

The reason?? You believe making a change from what you currently HAVE will bring you happiness. It won't.

Happiness is an INSIDE Job. Yes, you must rid yourself from all that is tormenting, toxic and impeding, but if that's all you've ever known, you will lack essential discernment and trust you require to move beyond it in ways that are far more gratifying.

We cannot change our inner experience by altering our outer experience, unless we authentically feel worthy and deserving of more and better~ or we invariably end up in the same hole in the road that made us wanna leave it in the first place.